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W.Q. Hullihen
(1841 - 1923)
Home State: Virginia
Education: University of Virginia (1860-61), Virginia Military Institute (24 days),
Virginia Theological Seminary, Class of 1868
Command Billet: Staff Officer
Branch of Service: Staff
Before Sharpsburg
A dentist's son, in 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his widowed mother Elizabeth and 3 siblings in Wheeling, VA. He was a student at the University of Virginia for a year, then, very briefly a Cadet in the Virginia Military Institute (Class of 1862). He left VMI to enlist in Richmond on 27 May 1861 as a Private in the 2nd Company, Richmond Howitzers. He was appointed Cadet, PACS, and temporary 2nd Lieutenant, and assigned to the Madison Light Artillery on 24 July 1862. He was detailed as acting aide-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier General J.E.B. Stuart on 29 August.
On the Campaign
He was on General Stuart's staff in Maryland, and the General later wrote:
Cadet W. Q. Hullihen, C. S. Army, was particularly distinguished on the field of Sharpsburg for his coolness and his valuable services as acting aide-de-camp.
The rest of the War
He continued on Stuart's staff as ADC and was wounded in action at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was again cited by Stuart, for "commendable zeal and credit" at Gettysburg in July 1863. He was assigned as Assistant Adjutant General (AAG) to Brigadier General L.L. Lomax on 2 November and appointed Lieutenant of Cavalry on 10 December 1863. He was wounded again, in the right leg at Tom's Brook, VA on 9 October 1864. He was promoted to Captain & AAG to Brigadier General W.H. Payne in November 1864 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.
After the War
He attended the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1868, and served at the Old Christ Church in Baltimore, MD. He was then rector of Trinity Church in Staunton, VA for 46 years (1872-1918).
References & notes
His service and bio basics from Krick,1 with details from his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The quote above from Major General Stuart's after-action report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, and his bio sketch from the VMI Archives. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture from a photograph of unknown provenance.
He married Amelia Hay Campbell (1848-1939) and they had 5 daughters and a son between 1871 and 1886.
Birth
06/14/1841; Wheeling, VA
Death
04/08/1923; Staunton, VA; burial in Trinity Episcopal Churchyard, Staunton, VA
1 Krick, Robert E.L., Staff Officers in Gray; A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003, p. 166 [AotW citation 32020]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32021]